gedit vs kate for Ruby/RoR

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I've been working with gedit because it is the standard offering with Linux (I'm a Kubuntu user), but several people have mentioned Kate. For a text editor, for the most part I want a clone of textmate. Is there any merit to the claim that Kate is a textmate clone? I seek comparisons =]

Gedit with the gmate suite of extensions (https://github.com/gmate/gmate) comes close to textmate. — Shreyas, Mar 17 '11 at 10:22
Very closely related question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/253982/ruby-and-linux-prefered-setup , plus other questions with the tags "ruby" and "editor". — Andrew Grimm, Mar 17 '11 at 21:51

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 17 '11 at 10:41

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There are redcar

http://redcareditor.com/

Textmate bundles, Redcar supports Textmate themes and snippets.

answered Mar 17 '11 at 10:41

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FAQ says it's still beta. I'd rather go with something that has a following, at least for now ;) – Sophie Mar 17 '11 at 10:44
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I use redcar for Rails development and it rocks! – Teej Mar 17 '11 at 13:08
Actually we say it's still Alpha :) but it's pretty useable now. – Daniel Lucraft Mar 21 '11 at 10:14

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 17 '12 at 11:40

I don't know Textmate, but I have some experience with Geany and Kate on Ruby.

I prefer Kate because it's possible to view several files side-by-side in the same window. It's useful to see file dependencies (class and subclass, controller and model/view, etc.).

Kate save sessions, so the window will open next time as it was left.

I suggest KDE >= 4.7 due to some bug fixes and new features.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 17 '11 at 21:36

SublimeText 2 (beta) is a cross-platform gui editor that is a lot like Textmate. I've been using it on an off on my Mac and Linux machines. Its fast and so far much nicer than anything else I've used on a Linux machine for development (except for VIM, but that's arguably a whole other ballgame).

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 17 '11 at 20:59

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While not a "clone" (I don't think you're going to find that any time soon), check out E-Texteditor which supports TextMate bundles.

answered Mar 17 '11 at 20:59

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I think he works on Linux. E works on Windows only – fl00r Mar 17 '11 at 22:04
Apologies. Check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/70120/which-text-code-editor-on-linux-is-most-similar-to-textmate then. It's a couple of years old, but offers many Linux options. – Chuck Mar 17 '11 at 23:23

gedit vs kate for Ruby/RoR

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